Ubykh was spoken in the eastern coast of the Black Sea, around Sochi until 1864, when the Ubykhs were driven out of the region by the Russians.

Ubykh was never written except for the few phrases Evliya Celebi transcribed in the Seyahatname, but a substantial portion of the oral literature, along with some cycles of the Nart saga, was transcribed.

Ubykh has only two (arguably three) basic phonemic vowels: closed [ə] - schwa, as in English "about" - and open [a] and [aa] (which actually differ in quality but do not differ in length, although diachronically aa is derived from sequences of a + a).

Ubykh was spoken in the eastern coast of the Black Sea, around Sochi until 1875, when the Ubykhs were driven out of the region by the Russians.

Ubykh was never written except for the few phrases Evliya Celebi transcribed in the Seyahetname, but a substantial portion of the oral literature, along with some cycles of the Nart saga, was transcribed.

Ubykh has some 17 ejective phonemes, but lacks a phonemic (A stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis; as in the sudden onset of a vowel) glottal stop.

Ubykh may be related to (Click link for more info and facts about Hattic) Hattic, a language spoken in (A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey) Anatolia before 2000 BC and written in a (An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia) cuneiform script.

Ubykh (A unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme) syllables have a strong tendency to be CV, although VC and CVC also exist.

Thousands of pages of accurate Ubykh material exist; a 260-odd page dictionary exists, as well as dozens of folktales, many of which are related to the mythology of the Ancient Greeks, including a version of the Nart saga.

Ubykh does not have grammatical gender, and has only four grammatical cases, which are easier to learn than, for instance, the Ancient Greek case system.

Ubykh has 20 uvular consonants, many of which are pharyngealised at the same time; in addition, it has a lot of ejective consonants, and some of these can be pharyngealised too.

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Ubykh has just seven of the 10 phonemes noted in Pirahã, the language with the fewest phonemes.

Ubykh has only two (arguably three) basic phonemic vowels: closed - schwa, as in English "'''a'''bout" - and open ['''a'''] and ['''aa'''] (which actually differ in quality but do not differ in length, although diachronically aa is derived from sequences of a + a).

Ubykh is often extremely concise in its word forms: if only you had been able to take it all out from under me again is just nine syllables, much shorter than the 19 syllables of the Englishtranslation.

Outside of mythology, the ancestors of the Ubykh were mentioned in book IV of Procopius' De Bello Gotico (The Gothic War), under the name βρο`...

It is the language with the most native speakers in the European Union.

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It is known in linguistic literature by many names: variants of Ubykh, such as Ubikh, Ubıh (Turkish) and Oubykh (French); and Pekhi (from Ubykh ') and its Germanicised variant Päkhy.

Ubykh contains many rare phonemes: the sound only appears in Ubykh, its relatives Abkhaz and Abaza, and two other languages, both of which are found only in the Amazon rainforest; and the phoneme ', a pharyngealised labiodental voiced fricative, may not exist in any other language on Earth.

The fate of Ubykh is particularly sad not only because of its structural peculiarities that make it so interesting for us linguists, but also because its extinction is the final result of a genocide of the Ubykh people.

The entire Ubykh population left its homeland, and the survivors were scattered over Turkey.

A century and a half ago, the Oubykh language belonging to the Caucasian group of languages was spoken by as many as 50,000 Oubykh tribesmen in the Caucasus valleys east of the Black Sea.

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